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πολύφθορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύφθορος πολύφθορᾱ πολύφθορον

Structure: πολυφθορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. utterly destroyed

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἦ μὰν ἀνόμοιά γε δᾴοισιν ἐν θερμῷ χροὶ̈ ἕλκεα ῥῆξαν πελεμιζόμενοι ὑπ’ ἀλεξιμβρότῳ λόγχᾳ, τὰ μὲν ἀμφ’ Ἀχιλεῖ νεοκτόνῳ, ἄλλων τε μόχθων ἐν πολυφθόροισ ἁμέραισ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 8 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. utterly destroyed

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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